Hair parting device



Patented Apr. 8, 1952 U TED STAT E S .PATEN T 2',591,ss5 J HAIR rAR'rINGnEvIoE John Lakeland;TorontoQOntariU,Canada Application August 18, 1950, Serial No. 180,111

1. The primary object of my invention is to provide a toilet device which is particularly designed to part the hair of the human head in 3 Claims. (Cl. 132-45) carried by a holder in the nature of a grasping element. The prongs are desirably curved through their length to more nearly conform to the crown of the average human head and they.

by the other holder. Then by moving the other holder laterally away from the parting line, the hair is parted in a smooth and perfect appearance. The invention is simple to use and moreover it produces an exact parting. It thus gives the hair a well-groomed and neat appearance. The

parting can be carried out with exactitude, and. time and labour is saved in grooming the hair. The device is inexpensive to manufacture and is highly desirable as a toilet article for fastidious people.

A selected embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a view of the parting instrument depicting the manner in which the instrument is applied to the hair in a parting operation. l

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the parting device. Fig. 3 is an edge view of Fig. 2. J h Fig. 4 is a plan view of Fig. 1 showing how a section of the parting instrument is pulled later? ally through the hair in a parting operation. The hair parting instrument of the present,

siliency in a direction transversely of a plane containing the prongs. The cross-section of the? individual prongs should be of a shape that will The prongs should possess a";

2 strengthen them against bending in a plane through the several prongs of a group. To this end the prongs may be of an oval or a flat shape in cross-section.

.The prongs should also be of a length to extend a substantial distance through the hair adjacent to the scalp, as depicted in Figs. 1 and 2, and they should be curved through their length to' more nearly conform to the contour of the crown portion of the average human head--see Fig. 3.

.fI'he holders 6 and 1 are graspin portions which form co-acting parting elements with the respective groups A and B of the prongs. Said holders abut each other at their inner ends 8 and these ends have an interfitting connection .by-which the two co-acting parting elements are detachably joined. The interfitting connection may for example consist of a tongue 9 on the holder 6 and a socket I0 provided in the end 'of the holder 1. The tongue is made a free and ,easy fit in the sockets so that the holders can be" readily separated.

' An important feature of the construction is that the parting elements each have a prong located flush with the inner end 8 of the respective holder. These extreme inner prongs are contiguously engaged when the holders are brought into abutmentand interconnected by means of the tongue 9 and the socket l0.

"In the use of the article the two sections or parting elements are joined by means of the tongue 9 and the socket in. In the assembled condition of the two sections the article is in- I "seitted into the hair from the front of the head and the meeting inner prongs C of the sections -';are' located at the place where the hair is to be parted. To bring about the desired parting one 'of" the holders is held against movement while the other holder is withdrawn through-the hair in .a lateral directionsee Fig. 4. The other holder is then pulled laterally through the hair directly away from the parting line, which thus provides an accurate and perfect parting of the hair. The hair is quickly and. smoothly parted by the device of the invention. Moreover the device is inexpensive to manufacture and easy to use. "i fyvhat I claim is:

A hair parting device comprising a pair of elongated holders in the form of rigidg'grasping members arranged in end to "end relation, inter- I fitting means on the inner ends" of said holders by which they are interconnctedjand hapable of being detached readily by pullirigftheni-apart, a main hair parting prong rigidly carriedj by each holder, said prongs being located at the inner ends of said holders immediately adjacent to each other and co-extensively arranged, said prongs consisting of long slender members of stiff material for passing through the hair imme diately adjacent to the scalp to create a parting, and a plurality of ancillary prongs on the holders, said ancillary prongs being arranged in spaced parallel relation and in a plane containing said main prongs to co-extend therewith.

2. A hair parting device as defined in claim 1, in which the interfitting means comprises a recess in the inner end of one of the holders forming a socket, and a tongue on the other holder, said tongue projecting axially of the last'mentioned holder and being engaged slida'bly in said socket.

3. A hair parting device as defined in claim 1, in which the outer ends of the holders project beyond the prongs transversely thereof in order to form grasping portions by which the device may be manipulated with facility.

JOHN LAKELAND.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of" this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Great Britain July 14, 1927 

